Monthly Archives: February, 2024

Media forum underlines need for data-driven journalism in reporting tobacco

In its determination to encourage the use of data to drive home the campaign against tobacco use and addiction, the Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI)...

Nigeria’s e-mobility ambitions: COP28 and bridging the gap with climate finance

The world is undoubtedly facing a crisis and 2023 was unfortunately dubbed the hottest in 174 years of record-keeping where humans directly measured the...

Channelling petroleum subsidy savings to drive green growth, sustainable devpt

In a daring move, Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, declared the immediate abolition of fuel subsidies during his Inaugural Address on May 29, 2023,...

World Cancer Day: Food, chemicals and cancer?

On February 4, 2024, the global community unites in solemn commemoration of World Cancer Day, bearing the poignant slogan "Close the care gap." As...

Coalition, partners review COP28 takeaways, advocate prompt climate action

The Coalition for Socio-Ecological Transformation (COSET) and partners in Abuja on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at a daylong forum tagged “Post COP28 – Reviews...

Global South activists appeal to seven UN Special rapporteurs on GM wheat

Food sovereignty alliance from Latin America, Africa, and Asia approaches seven UN Special Rapporteurs for urgent intervention to block cultivation and trade of GM...

WHO unveils sanitation safety planning initiatives in five states

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has initiated Sanitation Safety Planning (SSP) interventions in five states to combat the transmission of faecal-oral diseases and enhance...

World Cancer Day: Burden growing globally amidst mounting need for services

Ahead of World Cancer Day observed on Sunday, February 4, 2024,, the World Health Organisation (WHO) cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on...

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Decade of Gas: Nigeria’s gas production surges to 7.5bcf/d, targets 12bcf/d by 2030 – Ubong

The Coordinating Director of the Decade of Gas Secretariat, Mr. Ed Ubong, has disclosed that Nigeria’s gas production rose...
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TechnoServe, Coca-Cola Foundation launch PReP 2.0 to help scale plastic recycling in Nigeria

Building on the success of the first phase of the Plastic Recycling Program in Southern Nigeria (PReP), international nonprofit,...

40 migratory animal species receive new, upgraded protection at close of UN meeting in Brazil

Confronted with stark new evidence that many migratory species are moving closer to extinction, governments at a major UN...

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Decade of Gas: Nigeria’s gas production surges to 7.5bcf/d, targets 12bcf/d by 2030 – Ubong

The Coordinating Director of the Decade of Gas Secretariat,...